THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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In Pennsylvania, Mr. Abner Hoopes of Hoopes Bro. & 
Thomas Co., West Chester, started an experiment spring, 
1911, taking photographs of trees before they were planted, 
and as these are dug from time to time, reports and photo¬ 
graphs will be taken, and records kept, which will have a 
permanent and definite value. 
In Texas, Mr. John S. Kerr, of the Texas Nursery Co., 
located at Sherman, has been active in this work, and 
advises that parties took the matter up with the A. & M. 
College of Sherman, Texas, under Prof. A. S. Ness, assistant 
to Prof. B. Youngblood. This experiment consists of per¬ 
haps two or three hundred trees, and one hundred that were 
not galled. A report of the result of this work to date has not 
been made to the Committee. 
Your Chairman has furnished such information as he 
could to various inquiries, and has supplied the attorneys 
in the W. C. Reed, case wtih material relating to gall on 
apple trees, for their reference in the suit brought by W. C. 
Reed, against an inspector in the State of Colorado who 
destroyed several thousand apple trees, reported to have been 
affected in part with gall. This case is one in which every 
nurseryman has a direct interest, a case in which your 
Chairman believes an appropriation should be made in 
helping Mr. Reed prosecute the case, as it is not one of 
individual interest alone, but will be far-reaching and 
national in its results. 
Your Chairman also suggests that a fund be set aside 
by the Association each year, on the basis of not less than 
10 per cent upon all membership fees collected by the 
American Association, the use of which should be subject 
to the approval of the finance or executive Committee, for 
protecting the interests of nurserymen in legislation, or 
unjust discrimination by inspectors. 
The individual nurseryrnan is isolated, he is only a unit. 
His case may be a clear one, but the amount involved will 
not warrant his prosecuting it. The principle involved 
may be important and far-reaching, but the individual 
nurseryman may not have the means to go into the courts 
and establish the principle as an individual, whereas if the 
nurserymen as a whole were united, the cost would be but 
little, the result secured large. 
The Chairman of this Committee takes this opportunity 
. to thank other members of the Committee for their prompt 
and willing support during the past year. 
Comspondcncc 
Editor National Nurseryman: 
In writing on the Law and the Nurseryman I was treat¬ 
ing the subject from a California standpoint, mainly, al¬ 
though I endeavored to show that the whole subject of 
insect control should be handled in a much broader way, 
as regarding inter-state and inter-county quarantine. You 
refer to the “radical demands of the Pacific Coast Nursery¬ 
men, or their representatives.” I would say that the radical 
views to which you undoubtedly refer were opinions ex¬ 
pressed by a gentleman from Southern California, largely 
interested in citrus growing. This gentleman delivered an 
extempore address at the Fruit Growers’ Convention relat¬ 
ing his experience while working wtih the representatives 
at Washington in reference to the Simmonds bill. He in no 
way represented California nurserymen, or any nurserymen, 
but he condemned the nurserymen as a whole in unqualified 
terms as obstructing any legislation which would tend to 
safe-guard the fruit interests of the United States against 
importation of pests or plant disease. 
My remarks as to the importation of foreign ornamental 
trees or the importation of fruit had reference to the need¬ 
lessness of such importations, and had no reference whatever 
to the importation of fruit tree stocks, seedlings, or any other 
nursery stock which is required in the business. , In fact in 
California we are absolutely dependent upon European 
importation of most of our fruit stocks. I do not think, 
however, that it is necessary for nurserymen either in the 
east or here to encourage the importation of ornamental 
trees and shrubs from abroad. We certainly can grow them 
in the United States, and I believe that all that we can grow 
here we should grow. To encourage importing firms is to 
set up a large element of competition to what I would call 
the legitimate nursery trade in the United States. 
I am not familiar with the details of the Simmons bill 
or exactly know in what state it now is, but I am of the im¬ 
pression that our interests in California and the interests 
of what I would call the legitimate nurserymen or growers 
of the east are the same. I do not class the nurserymen with 
the importing firms, and I think that nurserymen through¬ 
out the country should everywhere be encouraged to propa¬ 
gate and disseminate the native growth of trees and shrubs. 
With our diversified climates from Florida to the north, 
and again on the Pacific Coast, with all intermediate climates 
and soils, we certainly do not need to import ornamental 
shrubs and trees from Europe. In fact, we already have all 
of those trees and shrubs growing in the leading nurseries 
throughout the United States, and certainly can propagate 
from them. In the meantime let educational work go on 
relative to a better knowledge of native plants and trees. 
Leonard Coates. • 
[Mr. Coates paper will appear in our next issue.— Ed.] 
Editor National Nurseryman, 
Dear Sir: 
I have sold my nursery busines to A. R. McDougall, 
at my old stand, 3011 Westminster Road, Vancouver, B. C. 
I am traveling most of the time, and have bought a 
place in California to winter on, where I have been planting 
oranges, lemons, etc., in ordes to grow my own lemonade, 
also a few grapes to grow temperance wine with. So call 
around next winter and I will entertain you. 
I do not keep in touch with The National Nurseryman, 
being on the road so much, and it is like bidding good-bye 
to an old friend (sort of a business obituary for M. J. H.) 
so kindly discontinue, but with best wishes to the National 
Nurseryman, I remain Truly yours, 
Chilliwack, B. C. M. J. Henry. 
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FLOWER SHOW AT ASBURY PARK 
The third annual flower show by the city of Asbury Park 
and the Elberon Horticultural Society took place July 3, 4, 
5, and 6, in the Asbury Park Auditorium. 
